[LLVMdev] git

David A. Greene greened at obbligato.org
Fri Jul 22 22:45:55 PDT 2011


Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> writes:

> I really do appreciate distributed VCS, but only as staging.
> Incremental development is crucial for the project and "take this git
> push with 100K of code" will never be acceptable.

I'm a little confused.  To me "staging" means incremental development,
getting things integrated correctly, etc.  The final merge to "mainline"
is little more than a formality.  You don't really want each individual
commit from the local branch cherry-picked on-by-one to mainline, do
you?

                       -Dave



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